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Actually AWS appears to still be partially down. metabase.cpantesters.org
is still down. Which has crippled the ENTIRE Perl testing infrastructure.
No one can upload new test reports.
CPAN authors aren't getting up-to-date reports of failure.
Reports from people testing distributions against the latest version of Perl, are not getting through. Which means that we can only hope that there aren't any new failures that aren't getting sent to the mailing list. ( Perl v5.14.0 may come out on April 28th )
CPAN authors may be leery of putting out new versions of their modules while this black-hole exists. (I know I am)
This is not the first time that there was a problem with sending reports. Last time there was a simple work-around. This time, the only work-around is to setup a relay server, and put it into offline mode until further notice.

Late last year, the Netflix Tech Blog wrote about five lessons they learned moving to Amazon Web Services. AWS is, of course, the preeminent provider of so-called "cloud computing", so this can essentially be read as key advice for any website considering a move to the cloud. And it's great ad...